His gaze doesn’t leave Alice as he approaches.

“Oh, Alice,” Caleb murmurs, a sweet and sorrowful empathy in his eyes.

Alice sniffles, and lifts one of her hands toward him, silently rescinding her command from the roof not to touch her. Caleb lets out a big breath and pulls her to his chest. His scent is mollifying. It soothes every stress racing through her skull. Her hands slide up his sides and grip the fabric of his shirt, admittedly relieved that he’s here.

“We need to get her home,” Grant says. He drops her bag and coat into the trunk, then opens the back door up. Caleb loads her into the back seat. She thinks Grant will join her there, but Caleb follows in after and pulls her back to his chest. For all of her protestation on the roof, his touch quiets the distressed parts of her. How could she have ever tried to deny him?

Caleb doesn’t speak as they drive. He just holds Alice with his palm beneath her shirt, resting on her stomach, touching her searing skin. They don’t even get to the freeway before she’s asleep.

six

Alice wakes to that flame, the scorch consuming her, and when she opens her eyes, they are there. Her clothes have been removed, which pleases her more than it startles her. Before she can even voice what she needs, their hands are on her.

Ever gently, Caleb lifts her back off of the bed so that Grant can settle behind her with his legs straddling either side of her hips. It puts him in the perfect place to whisper all of his Alpha platitudes into her ear. How they’ll take care of her, how they know it burns, but they will make it better.

Meanwhile, Caleb stares between her legs like a man possessed.

“Do you want to taste her, Cay?” Grant asks. Caleb’s eyes flick to his, then land on Alice’s before looking back to her pussy. The thought of his mouth on her makes her writhe and spread her legs further.

“Can he taste you, Alice? Can he make you feel good before he makes the heat better?”

“Please,” she says on a breath.

Caleb doesn’t need to be asked twice. He goes to her without grace, his lips and tongue immediately devouring her soaked cunt as he laps up the taste of her slick like it’s his favorite treat.

“How does she taste?” Grant asks. When Caleb only grunts in reply, Grant pulls on his hair until both Caleb and Alice whimper at the lost contact.

“Share,” Grant demands, which makes Caleb’s eyes darken further. Bossy.

Alice doesn’t imagine that, as an Alpha, Caleb likes to be told what to do while pleasuring her, but there’s a hunger beneath his eyes that tells a different story. “Alice first.”

Caleb looks at her, waiting for her permission, and when she nods, his mouth falls onto hers, crashing against her. God, the taste is absurd. Lewd and sweet—her own slick on his tongue mixing with his taste—it’s making her insane. She grasps at him, pulling his hair to make him come closer and dig his tongue deeper into her mouth.

“Now me,” Grant says, and Caleb’s mouth is wrenched from Alice’s to be put on Grant’s. The two Alphas making out only sends her further into her frenzy, and she grinds against Caleb’s thigh between her legs while she watches their mouths wrestle for dominance.

Another high-pitched noise escapes her and it pulls Caleb and Grant back to the matter at hand. Caleb kisses her once more, his tongue dipping into her mouth, before returning to her pussy.

“More, Caleb,” she begs as his tongue probes into her.

“Sweetheart,” Caleb groans before he sucks her clit into his mouth. It would usually take her longer, countless minutes to come from oral, but as soon as one of his fingers breaches her entrance, she’s off and her orgasm moves through her, offering only the slightest relief.

It’s euphoric and consuming, yet entirely not enough.

“More, I need?—”

“We know, baby,” Grant kisses down her neck and rolls her nipples between his fingers.

“Cay’s going to give it to you.”

“Is that what you want?” Caleb pulls away from her cunt after a final long lick and kneels between her open legs. “You want me to fill you up? Take that hurt away?”

“Alpha.” She pulls Caleb’s face down to hers and lets him kiss her senseless while two of his fingers now move in and out of her.

“You have to tell me, Alice, use your words.”

He is such a dick.

She needs him immediately.